Featuring architectural and maritime scenes cast in glass, my sculpture merges historical elements with ideas drawn from fiction and personal memory to create playful, often whimsical, moments. I celebrate color, texture, and beauty through depictions of ancient ruins, doors, windows, lighthouses, ships, and other symbols tied to the sea and my New England roots. I’m interested in the concept of home and our evolving relationships with the environments we inhabit. Simultaneously evoking a sense of both arrival and departure, my work ponders the question of just where it is we’re going.

 

Using the ancient lost-wax technique, I begin each piece by sculpting a wax model, evolving my forms through imagination and intuition. The wax model is then encased in a heat-resistant mold, melted out, and cast in glass in kilns reaching 1500 degrees fahrenheit. Each piece is then refined through extensive cold-working techniques including cutting, grinding, and polishing to reveal clarity, depth, and detail embedded within the glass. This labor-intensive process mirrors the layered histories of the structures which inspire me, transforming architectural memory into luminous form.

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